Walk home

After the boat ride I walked four of the six miles home

Before and after! Now (after) we are on a city bus line.

I now walk  1/8 of a mile, prove that I am old and have an entertaining ride into the city.

All I need is to get a cigarette and have it ready after the eight minutes. My eight minute nicotine fit will entertain other riders.

Back to the bus ride. With no traffic concerns and no parking issue I can be sitting in Marcy's Diner in twenty minutes. Today I also got onto my boat and was further treated to an enjoyable and polite human circus. An early summer mass journey to a city island was a joint destination for a few hundred humans.

Full disclosure, it was only an out and back destination for me and for a German lady and her son.  On the return ride we had the pick of four viewing perches!

Write and reflect (edit)

Too often (meaning almost always) I write on the fly.

That means what you read should have been could have been clearer.

Today I will tell of the baby moose and Kathy. We saw the moose on the other shore. Kathy went out with her phone (camera). Soon the baby had come to the shore near her, did a small circle and walked towards her. Her photos tell the complete story.

Air conditioning?

Middle of July and the wood stove is feeling good! Temperature at camp is most often cooler than near the coast of Maine. Why?

Camp is at 1500 feet elevation (ASL)  above sea level. The temperature falls a few degrees for each one thousand feet gain in elevation.

Very quiet also with loon and herron beating swish swish. The beating wings the only sound.  We do need to go a mile up the river for that solitude.

Plan - the state, road and time.

August 21, 2017. I found my spreadsheet dated in 2011. I was computing the number of days to the total eclipse. Right now about forty days.

I looked forward to the year 1984 (book by that title) and 2017.

We have plans.

Paperwork

Paperwork? Where is it? It is in the folder. We always put it in the folder.  We each recall holding this document or that document, but now it's gone.  Spend the money or the time and get it replaced! This time we say we will squirrel it away in only one spot.

Back at camp

I put out the trash, checked mail, and got a haircut. Now we hope for warm and dry conditions to allow outside work. Also mosquitos will slowly decrease. My two night travel to Unit 20 was Wednesday and Thursday.